RE: HSM outage causes root CA key loss

2009-07-15 Thread Weger, B.M.M. de
Hi, >>Our current Server CA certificate will expire in 2026 (when hopefully it >>won't be my problem!). > >Thus the universal CA root cert lifetime policy, "the lifetime of a CA root >certificate is the time till retirement of the person in charge at its >creation, plus five years" :-). This negl

Re: HSM outage causes root CA key loss

2009-07-15 Thread Peter Gutmann
"Jeffrey I. Schiller" writes: >Our current Server CA certificate will expire in 2026 (when hopefully it >won't be my problem!). Thus the universal CA root cert lifetime policy, "the lifetime of a CA root certificate is the time till retirement of the person in charge at its creation, plus five

Re: HSM outage causes root CA key loss

2009-07-15 Thread Peter Gutmann
Nicolas Williams writes: >This goes to show that we do need a TA distribution protocol (not for the >web, mind you), and it needs to use PKI -- a distinct, but related PKI. ... and now you have two (probably unsolveable) problems instead of one. In addition because the second problem virtua

Re: HSM outage causes root CA key loss

2009-07-15 Thread Peter Gutmann
"Jeffrey I. Schiller" writes: >Because of prior experience with a SafeKeyper(tm) (a very large HSM), I >learned that when the only copy of your key is in an HSM, the HSM vendor >really owns you key, or at least they own you! I thought the Safekeypers had a cloning mechanism (as do things like Ch